Author for children Gordon Korman

Gordon Korman

Living place: Montreal

Birthday: 23-10-1963 (61 years old)

Population of the world 1963: 3.205 billions

Global rank: #11739

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Author for children Gordon Korman profile

Who is Author for children Gordon Korman?
Author of over sixty children's books, including the Dive series, Swindle series, and Monday Night Football Club series. His non-sequential books include a semester in the life of a trash bag, The Twinkie Squad, and No More Dead Dog.
In a career spanning more than three decades, he has sold more than seven million copies of his books.
 
 

Young / Before famous

His first book, This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall, was the result of a seventh grade class given to him by his coach-turned-English teacher's track. The study was published by Scholastic Press when Korman was only fourteen years old.

Family life info

He grew up in Ontario and moved to the US to study dramatic writing at New York University. He settled on Long Island with his wife and three children.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Author for children Gordon Korman?
Robert Munsch is another popular children's book author from Canada.

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Summary of Gordon Korman profile

When was Author for children Gordon Korman born?
Gordon Korman birthday 23-10-1963 (at the age of 61).
Where is Author for children Gordon Korman's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Gordon Korman was born in Montreal, of Canada. is a Author for children, whose Zodiac is Libra, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Gordon Korman's global rank is 11739 and whose rank is 18 in list of famous Author for children. Population of the world in 1963 is about 3.205 billions persons.
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Events in 1963 and 23-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Gordon Korman

  • France and West Germany sign treaty of cooperation ending four centuries of conflict (Jan. 22).
  • Pope John XXIII dies (June 3), and is succeeded June 21 by Cardinal Montini, who becomes Paul VI.
  • British Secretary of War John Profumo resigns in the wake of an affair with Christine Keeler, a teenage showgirl who was also involved with the Soviet naval attaché (June).
  • Washington-to-Moscow "hot line" communications link opens, designed to reduce risk of accidental war (Aug. 30). Background: cold war
  • Kenya achieves independence.
  • There are 15,000 US military advisers in South Vietnam. Background: Vietnam War
  • 32 independent African nations establish the Organization for African Unity.

Birthday Gordon Korman (23-10) in history

  • Day 23-10 year 1915: 25,000 women marched in New York City, demanding the right to vote.
  • Day 23-10 year 1946: The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time.
  • Day 23-10 year 1973: President Richard Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica.
  • Day 23-10 year 1983: A suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International airport in Lebanon killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors.
  • Day 23-10 year 2002: Chechen rebels seized a crowded Moscow theater, taking hundreds hostage. Russian forces stormed the building the next day.
  • Day 23-10 year 2003: Madame Chiang Kai-shek died at age 105.
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